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MARY SHELLEY
Wed 9 to Sat 12 May at the Playhouse
Evenings: 7.30pm
Matinées: Thu at 1.30pm / Sat at 2pm
Tickets: £10 - £21
Age: 12+
Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (incl interval)
Afterwords: Fri 11 May
Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Lover of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Author of Frankenstein…
Shared Experience brings to life the astonishing tale of Mary Shelley – and how she came to write one of the greatest stories ever told, aged just 19.
This astonishing new play explores Shelley’s remarkable life: her controversial philosopher father, her scandalous elopement aged 16 and how she wrote a novel, so radical in its ideology, that in 1817 she changed the literary landscape forever.
Shared Experience are renowned for bringing classics to the stage in bold, imaginative ways. For Mary Shelley they reunite with award-winning writer Helen Edmundson whose ground breaking adaptations (Mill on the Floss, Coram Boy, Swallows and Amazons) have inspired generations of theatre makers.
A co-production between Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shared Experience, Mary Shelley is directed by Polly Teale, Artistic Director of Shared Experience. Celebrated for her potent visual and imaginative style, Polly won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director for her own play After Mrs Rochester, which also won the Time Out Award for Best West End Production.
“Theatre this engrossing is so rare, I can only urge you not to miss it.”
Time Out on Shared Experience
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The Norman Conquests
Fri 25 May to Sat 23 Jun at the Playhouse
(There will not be performances on the June Bank Holiday dates: Mon 4 Jun or Tue 5 Jun)
Evenings: 7.30pm (except TRILOGY DAYS which are at 7pm)
Matinées: 3pm (plus 11am on TRILOGY DAYS)
Table Manners
25 & 26 May, 1, 9, 12, 14, 18 & 23 Jun
11am Mat: 2 & 7 Jun
3pm Mat: 16 & 21 Jun
Living Together
28 & 29 May, 6, 8, 13, 16, 20 & 22 Jun
11am Mat: 9 & 23 Jun
3pm Mat: 2 & 7 Jun
Round and Round the Garden
30 & 31 May, 2, 7,11, 15, 19, & 21 Jun
11am Mat: 16 Jun
3pm Mat: 9, 14 & 23 Jun
TRILOGY DAYS: 11am, 3pm & 7pm
2, 7, 9, 16 & 23 Jun
Tickets: £12-£21
Age: 14+
Running Times: tbc
He came, he saw, he blundered.
Over one weekend at a country house, family tensions and thwarted lust bubble over in the summer heat. Amid sparring spouses, boring board games and dismal dinners, we join Norman as he struggles manfully to bring peace, calm and happiness to those around him.
The Norman Conquests is an ingenious interlocking trilogy, telling a single story from three vantage points. Each of the three plays – Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden – is a full, tragi-comic meal: together they add up to a rich comedic feast.
Perhaps the greatest feat by the world’s most popular playwright, this theatrical treat is directed by Philip Wilson, whose production of Noises Off was a delirious comic delight at the Playhouse in 2007.
“There are many blissful moments in these three plays, concerning a family gathering in a crumbling country house that left me physically helpless with hilarity. But the humour in Ayckbourn is rarely simple, and often dark.” The Daily Telegraph on The Norman Conquests
The plays, like Norman, have no order. See them as you like! Click here for the full performance diary and pricing – the more you see, the more you save.
A Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Production.
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Box office: 0151 709 4776
13 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BH
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